Category: Fraud

  • Telecom Fraud in the time of Covid19

    Telecom Fraud in the time of Covid19

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    You are all well aware of the unusual times we are living through. Our national resolve is strong and it is impressive and gratifying to see people all over our land pulling together and doing what is necessary for us to manage through this crisis. Telecom service providers are no exception and our networks have…

  • Celebration

    Celebration

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    As Canada is a multi-cultural nation, many of you are probably aware of the two big celebrations going on. For much of the Asian world, Saturday Jan 25 began the Lunar New Year or as some would call it, Chinese New Year. This year is the “Year of the Rat”. It is a time of…

  • 2020 Vision

    2020 Vision

    The world does not need another blog post about predictions or trends for the coming New Year. Or another Top 10 list. Those are far too common and overdone. For this years first blog post, I thought I would instead focus on a few topics that I see becoming of increasing importance, especially to service…

  • Choosing Quality over Least Cost Routing provides Better long term value

    Choosing Quality over Least Cost Routing provides Better long term value

    Why Least Cost Routing is too expensive AurorA has operated in the International Telecommunications market since 1994. Since that time the telecom landscape has evolved and transformed and the pace of change has accelerated. The liberalization and deregulation of telecoms since the 1990’s, the move to native Internet Protocol (VoIP) and the deployment of fiber…

  • SecTor 2019 Conference

    SecTor 2019 Conference

    Today I attended the Expo portion of the SecTor 2019 Conference. It was a bit of a stretch for me, and it got me out of my comfort zone as it was not part of the usual telecom or ISP service provider type of show that I normally attend. SecTor is Canada’s premier IT Security…

  • Risk and Assurance Group Toronto 2019 Conference

    Risk and Assurance Group Toronto 2019 Conference

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    On June 19th and 20th I was please to participate in RAG Toronto 2019, the North American conference put on by the Risk and Assurance Group (RAG) held at Telus Harbour (next to Scotiabank Arena, home of the 2019 NBA Champion Toronto Raptors ! see my post https://www.amitel.com/raptors/) The Risk & Assurance Group was set…